In early June 2018, Lacework discovered more than 21,000 container orchestration and API management systems on the Internet, and these results highlight the potential for attack points caused by poorly configured resources, lack of credentials, and the use of non-secure protocols. This report details our findings.

Cathay Pacific, one of the main airlines in Hong Kong, says records on as many as 9.4 million passengers may have been stolen in a data breach. The data includes passenger names, dates of birth, nationalities, phone numbers, email and postal addresses, and passport and identity card numbers.

LinkedIn’s training site Lynda.com is notifying users of a database breach that includes the passwords of just under 55,000 accounts. All those passwords were “cryptographically salted and hashed” to prevent access.

According to a report authored by security researcher Narendra Shinde, since May, 2016, the X.Org Server package had contained a vulnerability that allowed attackers to either elevate privileges and/or overwrite any files on the local system, even crucial OS data.